Monday, May 16, 2005

US President George W Bush is loosing support among women and the elderly, a development which shows the depth of US public resistance to Social Security and the occupation of Iraq.

Mr Bush's popularity registered a particularly steep decline among the elderly, with 55 per cent of Americans aged 65 or older disapproving. There has also been a collapse in support among women, with just 42 per cent approval, down from 51 per cent before November's presidential election.

The poll results for opinion on iraq mirror the president's populatiry rating. Only 41 per cent of respondents in the new Time poll approved of his handling of Iraq and 55 per cent disapproved.

Sign the petition to increase the minimum wage, extend unemployment insurance and stop social security privatization.

If you don't like a television program and if you find it very offensive you call the sponsors and complain and tell them you will boycott them until the program goes off the air and you get a program you do want..

So if you don't like the program of the Republican Party won't you call their sponsors and boycott them to get what you want passed in congress?

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954